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and a better healthcare system for everybody. for the poor. for people in the states. for medicare so we can actually have affordable health insurance for everybody including people with preexisting conditions without costly government takeover which is what obama care represents. our budget does promote repealing obama care and replacing it with a better system. onchris: i want to pick up on the medicare. starting with people who are now you 54 and reportedly wanted to raise it to 56 but then there was political pushback, starting with people who are now 54 you would start to give them when they become of age a government subsidy, a voucher, premium support to help them pay for healthcare costs. i don't have to tell you this was a big issue in the campaign between romney/ryan versus obama/biden. they think they won and that is one of the reasons they won. there are lot of independent studies that say if you put this into effect the net effect will be he that seniors will end up having to pay more of the share of their healthcare
and a better healthcare system for everybody. for the poor. for people in the states. for medicare so we can actually have affordable health insurance for everybody including people with preexisting conditions without costly government takeover which is what obama care represents. our budget does promote repealing obama care and replacing it with a better system. onchris: i want to pick up on the medicare. starting with people who are now you 54 and reportedly wanted to raise it to 56 but then...
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providers the union bank support of the foundation we are working to secure the future of healthcare in our communities. i'm proud to introduce the final award des who are prime examples of quality, excellence and leadership, and we see in the hospital each and everyday. with 22 years of combined experience at the general, oncology resource workers carolyn land and rashel oakland help canner patient and their families cope with this debill at a timing distance with grace and compassion. years of navigating the patient population of the complex system of coverage and healthcare these women work to meet each individual's needs and carol helped one young family who's head of household was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer and it had spread to his spine and bones. they coordinated transportation, financial support, and child care for the patient's young children. in addition,, care lynn rachel setup the family with support groups, therapy, communicationed with the schools and advocated for the patient and their families with the healthcare providers additional lesion a common request
providers the union bank support of the foundation we are working to secure the future of healthcare in our communities. i'm proud to introduce the final award des who are prime examples of quality, excellence and leadership, and we see in the hospital each and everyday. with 22 years of combined experience at the general, oncology resource workers carolyn land and rashel oakland help canner patient and their families cope with this debill at a timing distance with grace and compassion. years...
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investing in the right thing and what is around the corner for san francisco is $4.4 million unfunded healthcare costs for the employees of san francisco and we have to make those right so that they don't come back and hurt us and so these kind of fiscal things it's not because we are lucky i think it's because we have made smart division and is we have to continue that process of making smart decisions and we have to continue creating public/private partnerships and not run the government the way we used to run it and try to have good government cover and everything that is why it's important to have the business community get us good jobs and invest in education all of these things are going to help us be more successful and so focus more on that and try to keep my colleagues on the board of supervisors saying this is the smartest thing do and if we have money let's make a good investment of it. >> okay let's talk a bit about economic develop as it has been frontally mentioned here today we have the -- pleasure of hosting government rick perry recently for i think -- public blissity stunt but
investing in the right thing and what is around the corner for san francisco is $4.4 million unfunded healthcare costs for the employees of san francisco and we have to make those right so that they don't come back and hurt us and so these kind of fiscal things it's not because we are lucky i think it's because we have made smart division and is we have to continue that process of making smart decisions and we have to continue creating public/private partnerships and not run the government the...
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do they make mundo they make sure in this transition we do it by not hurting any of the industries healthcare, commercial real estate and financial and we solve a lot of problems through that collaboration and so i think by having good pollcies and tight communications with our business community and supporting them when they do create jobs with good idea for them and exciting the employ jesus having reasons for wanting to be in the bay area and best foods and investment in the arts is really helpful because the creative mind want that support from the art commune and we are doing that literally on such a market to attract employees. >> oakland had a good -- on a few year ago on tech companies pandora and -- in terms of headline making companies that seeps to have gone cold recently is that unfair impression or is there something that needs to be done to recharge tech companies. >> i think it will follow the office space but the companies that we have habe they are to the making as many headlines as the headline makers and particularly in product production and the companies we have have expa
do they make mundo they make sure in this transition we do it by not hurting any of the industries healthcare, commercial real estate and financial and we solve a lot of problems through that collaboration and so i think by having good pollcies and tight communications with our business community and supporting them when they do create jobs with good idea for them and exciting the employ jesus having reasons for wanting to be in the bay area and best foods and investment in the arts is really...
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we want people to have healthcare. >> i disagree. i agree with charlie gasparino. >> you agree for totally different reasons. >> correct. this is about making a national priority. making a decision. we have decided we want to pay for this. >> i dare you, that nobody understands how hard they are going to get hit and how the quality of their healthcare will be affected. >> don't blame the president for that. he ran it on the first time. he ran on it the second time. >> no, you are saying -- >> nobody knew what was in the bill. nobody knew. >> knows knows. >> the average american didn't understand it. >> they don't understand long term implications how it will alter it. >> and 35% of families making under $250,000 that was promise and line drawn in the sand. anyone making less than that thought they were immune from the issues. >> any rational person thought didn't think they were going to get hit. he didn't say he was going to raise the payroll tax. >> ben, on that note then, listen a lot of people are getting hit from this. you talke
we want people to have healthcare. >> i disagree. i agree with charlie gasparino. >> you agree for totally different reasons. >> correct. this is about making a national priority. making a decision. we have decided we want to pay for this. >> i dare you, that nobody understands how hard they are going to get hit and how the quality of their healthcare will be affected. >> don't blame the president for that. he ran it on the first time. he ran on it the second time....
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represent 50% of healthcare costs. and if you're an employer and can identify who these people are, you can save a lot of money to your bottom line. >> which is what this is all about. countless companies like quaker oats, johnson & johnson, honeywell, motorola, and ibm claim to have saved millions after instituting wellness programs. but all that good health might not necessarily make for the best workforce. the city of north miami, florida, used to require that all its new police officers be non-smokers. but two years ago, the city quietly dropped the smoking ban. gwendolyn boyd is the city's chief of police. >> we realized that at best we may save 5% on our insurance premium. but now we're having a problem with trying to recruit and hire highly-qualified candidates, and we're competing against agencies that do not have that policy. >> did dropping the policy dramatically change that? were you able to find qualified people? >> i would have to say unequivocally yes. >> officer juan mayato believes that the city ultima
represent 50% of healthcare costs. and if you're an employer and can identify who these people are, you can save a lot of money to your bottom line. >> which is what this is all about. countless companies like quaker oats, johnson & johnson, honeywell, motorola, and ibm claim to have saved millions after instituting wellness programs. but all that good health might not necessarily make for the best workforce. the city of north miami, florida, used to require that all its new police...
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s healthcare business generated more than $18 billion in revenue in 2011. now, doctors like john pellerito are using g.e.'s latest ct scanners to improve patient care. >> the acquisition of these 16 c.t. scanners is part of our system-wide initiative to improve patient safety and reduce dose. $12 million was invested with g.e. for these scanners and this is part of a $50 million program to improve patient safety. >> hopefully, we want to get to the point where we can get the amount of radiation on these scans as low as an x-ray. >> reporter: if you're a hospital patient, though, you may not even see some of the advanced technologies that are driving revenue for both the healthcare and technology industries. i.b.m.'s aiming its watson supercomputer, famous for its appearance on quiz show jeopardy, at the lucrative healthcare market. and number three: the doctors, >> the ibm watson technology and msk collaboration is just an extraordinary opportunity. what it can do is it can take all medical information from scientific proceedings, guidelines, textbooks, pub
s healthcare business generated more than $18 billion in revenue in 2011. now, doctors like john pellerito are using g.e.'s latest ct scanners to improve patient care. >> the acquisition of these 16 c.t. scanners is part of our system-wide initiative to improve patient safety and reduce dose. $12 million was invested with g.e. for these scanners and this is part of a $50 million program to improve patient safety. >> hopefully, we want to get to the point where we can get the amount...
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and healthcare as well and case veer certainly helps our entire community thrive and then one s f which, is out of the organizing committee and one s f and i hope you take time to get very familiar with what this organization is doing for san francisco and how you can utilize this organization to become a part of the american's cup experience. one s f is mobilizing san francisco's corporation and is citizens behind the many many community and legacy benefits of the america's cup and there are many. cruise ship terminal infrastructure projects and so when you become a one s f partner you will drive that local effort and help provide the funding support and there are so many exciting ways you can become aligned with the cup this exciting year and so one s f of the america's cup organizing committee and really the mayor will say more about that and robert half international i have to thank them for helping me find my great business manager this year just on the side and i wanted to thank randal my second who's regent vice president of mice executive international and they help us with our
and healthcare as well and case veer certainly helps our entire community thrive and then one s f which, is out of the organizing committee and one s f and i hope you take time to get very familiar with what this organization is doing for san francisco and how you can utilize this organization to become a part of the american's cup experience. one s f is mobilizing san francisco's corporation and is citizens behind the many many community and legacy benefits of the america's cup and there are...
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it costs the healthcare system billions. he believes even a small reduction could save money and save lives! here at yale new haven hospital innovative researchers are reengineering the healthcare system so it meets the patient's needs. >> surgery is perfect, but the rehab doesn't work or problem and six months later people regret they had the surgery. they aren't gaining benefit from it. what did the surgery actually accomplish >> can the healthcare system afford an all hands on tech senior care? healthcare insurance advocate susan says the hmo anticipated this problem in advance of obamacare. >> health plans focused on the transition from hospital to home. conservatively over the last few years. have designed systems to help make sure the patient gets what he or she needs at home, to make sure the follow visit occurs, to make sure that patients are taking their beds. >> 83-year-old helen is one of the rare medicare patients who is getting to try out an exciting new way to fix the aortic valve without surgery. >> i like to
it costs the healthcare system billions. he believes even a small reduction could save money and save lives! here at yale new haven hospital innovative researchers are reengineering the healthcare system so it meets the patient's needs. >> surgery is perfect, but the rehab doesn't work or problem and six months later people regret they had the surgery. they aren't gaining benefit from it. what did the surgery actually accomplish >> can the healthcare system afford an all hands on...
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my paper was not designed to study the merits of healthcare reform at all. i was narrowly focused on trying to evaluating incentives facing the states, the position the states are in as a result of the law being passed eric -- past. having said that, i think there is a lot that people miss with respect to the drivers of healthcare cost. i think part of this reflects the fact that our body politic is reluctant to accept certain realities of the academic literature. finkelstein's research demonstrated that one of the big drivers of healthcare cost inflation was the rapid expansion of federally subsidized insurance in the 1960's to medicare and medicaid. the provision of federally subsidized insurance is a big driver of health service consumption and puts a lot of upward pressure on costs. there of another academic studies. one basically look at the factors throughout countries that drive health inflation. one of the big factors is the rate of growth of government provided health care services. if we are with ourselves, we have to recognize that one of the big
my paper was not designed to study the merits of healthcare reform at all. i was narrowly focused on trying to evaluating incentives facing the states, the position the states are in as a result of the law being passed eric -- past. having said that, i think there is a lot that people miss with respect to the drivers of healthcare cost. i think part of this reflects the fact that our body politic is reluctant to accept certain realities of the academic literature. finkelstein's research...
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so healthcare, main strength of the kaiser is [inaudible/incomprehensible] to be an ensator in healthcare and that is one of the characteristic traits in oakland and we have had this year, after a decade, finally you launched the oakland -- in the worth of oakland by a point over there and our interim director debra allen is here all right -- and that is a major economic engine for the whole region how many you have are involved in transportation lodgestics? not that many here, okay but that is if you look, into commercial real estate and they use economic engine for the entire region and so i look at the jobs that are for the worth port oakland which, is the first port that met the call to export more than we imported and that, that, is very important and that the expansion of the army base after ten years and my deputy there on swan son, over here for played a major role in getting that conversion for the federal government and the chief of staff -- and so, this is an area where, we made a decision that -- industrial jobs and the calm of the president, to make sure that we have a balanc
so healthcare, main strength of the kaiser is [inaudible/incomprehensible] to be an ensator in healthcare and that is one of the characteristic traits in oakland and we have had this year, after a decade, finally you launched the oakland -- in the worth of oakland by a point over there and our interim director debra allen is here all right -- and that is a major economic engine for the whole region how many you have are involved in transportation lodgestics? not that many here, okay but that is...
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we've had four years of healthcare costs rising at the same rate as gdp. the congressional budget office, which is called nonpartisan is hardly nonpartisan. it's a very conservative economic model and its saying that those rapid growth and healthcare cuts are going to keep going up. it's going to undermine the economy. those healthcare costs likely will not go up, and we're not going to have--i know i'm getting a little technical here. >> john: no, not at all. >> but we should be weary of this. >> it's fascinating when you get past how scary it is. now income and equality, we're almost out of time,, do you see any politician or any group right now making that their top priority at all, jeff? >> i have a big problem that there isn't. it's too bad that they got evicted from the zuccotti park. they did a pretty darn good job of doing that in the old days but everyone is talking about deficits balancing the budget. when obama flew in the towel before his 2009, talking about how he had to worry about deficits, we started losing the game and getting a strong rec
we've had four years of healthcare costs rising at the same rate as gdp. the congressional budget office, which is called nonpartisan is hardly nonpartisan. it's a very conservative economic model and its saying that those rapid growth and healthcare cuts are going to keep going up. it's going to undermine the economy. those healthcare costs likely will not go up, and we're not going to have--i know i'm getting a little technical here. >> john: no, not at all. >> but we should be...
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we believe obama care will actually lead to hospitals and doctors and healthcare providers turning people away. it is a program that basically puts medicare under the control of 15 people on a board that will determine what kind of benefits people get. that is a rationing board,
we believe obama care will actually lead to hospitals and doctors and healthcare providers turning people away. it is a program that basically puts medicare under the control of 15 people on a board that will determine what kind of benefits people get. that is a rationing board,
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expensive healthcare issues. i know you tell me, but you don't care about your -- >> its male, match co-thing, i don't care about my health but my wife cares about hers. >> when you get a cold, you whine like a baby. >> full disclosure, we had to get that out there. >> was study of jet blue employees and covered spouses cost 50% more than the crew members. so it does tend to show through some surveys. >> gregg: now, i was looking at who is dropping spouses. school systems, universities, various manufacturers big and small and medium. and also private insurance agencies? >> the truth is it's pretty broad-based. it's among large employers. we know that small businesses have trouble covering spouses and adding on to big health care packages, but now it's the larger and even quote, unquote, huge companies that are getting rid of this. >> gregg: if they don't kick you off entirely as spouse, what they do is they make it prohibitively expensive. they jack up the premiums for the spouse? >> they jack up the premium and
expensive healthcare issues. i know you tell me, but you don't care about your -- >> its male, match co-thing, i don't care about my health but my wife cares about hers. >> when you get a cold, you whine like a baby. >> full disclosure, we had to get that out there. >> was study of jet blue employees and covered spouses cost 50% more than the crew members. so it does tend to show through some surveys. >> gregg: now, i was looking at who is dropping spouses. school...
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dedication to the citizens of san francisco and their welfare, have made him an excellent advocate for healthcare access through such programs as healthy san francisco. so please join me in welcome can mayor edwin, lee. . >> thank you crystal and may i give you your value tine. >>> thank you. >> mayor khan, made in san francisco ... all right, good morning everyone. okay. i'll try not to isn't that correcty. and i isn't that correct isn't that correct key. and [spelling?] and so i want to thank all of you for being in san francisco and webcore and others who have been such a great part of the success in this city and i want to thank my great friend mayor khan for coming over here and later on, later this year we are going to be traveling over the new span of the bay bridge and joining each other with governor brown as we celebrate in september with largest construction project in the history of the bay area and we talked about it last year when we were thinking about how to celebrate this bridge crossing and we made some cultural connections. and something about our ancestors helping to build the
dedication to the citizens of san francisco and their welfare, have made him an excellent advocate for healthcare access through such programs as healthy san francisco. so please join me in welcome can mayor edwin, lee. . >> thank you crystal and may i give you your value tine. >>> thank you. >> mayor khan, made in san francisco ... all right, good morning everyone. okay. i'll try not to isn't that correcty. and i isn't that correct isn't that correct key. and [spelling?]...
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because your healthcare is the most important thing you have, and it's frightening when you think it might be threathe matte are ways that we can offer that health care to people at a much cheaper price. and actually better health care. better relationships between their doctors. i think we really need to put this thing back on the table and discuss it, because what we're doing now is creating a situation where employers are dumping people or cutting back their hours so they don't have to pay these extreme costs. this is not working out the way it was supposed to. it would be okay to simply say, you know, this is not quite what we anticipate. can we go back to the drawing board? maybe this time late be transapart i parent and get everybody involved in the discussion. i would make a big difference. i did get called by the administration a couple of times during the debate, and the first time we were having a good discussion, and thin indicated that i was an independent so that was pretty much it. then i got a call 0 couple months later, reconsidered, and i was teaching a class, and i
because your healthcare is the most important thing you have, and it's frightening when you think it might be threathe matte are ways that we can offer that health care to people at a much cheaper price. and actually better health care. better relationships between their doctors. i think we really need to put this thing back on the table and discuss it, because what we're doing now is creating a situation where employers are dumping people or cutting back their hours so they don't have to pay...
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we had all of those methods of funding healthcare. what didn't we fund? >> what h.h.s. did and i compliment them, is they said, where are the donut holes? 26-year-olds -- we got to cover these kids now because they are getting out there, they won't buy insurance, we need to bring them back under their parents. we did that. what did medicaid expansion do? it filled another donut hole. we had a group out there that wasn't doing it. what did the penalties, what did the incentives on people of certain incomes being able to access health care insurance with a subsidy? they looked at our system and said, where are all holes, and they started plugging them. will it work? that is a different question. that is what they were trying to do, in my opinion. we look at it from -- the one perspective we never look at it is every study i have ever seen says the average family plan in united states pays over $1,000 a year to help do the cost shifting for people who are not able to pay, who go to the emergency room, and using a medical plan, go to the emergency room. at our hospital, 6%
we had all of those methods of funding healthcare. what didn't we fund? >> what h.h.s. did and i compliment them, is they said, where are the donut holes? 26-year-olds -- we got to cover these kids now because they are getting out there, they won't buy insurance, we need to bring them back under their parents. we did that. what did medicaid expansion do? it filled another donut hole. we had a group out there that wasn't doing it. what did the penalties, what did the incentives on people...
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must slow schedule a tal problems and injuries are the second largest burden in the world of healthcare. the least patients are seen in these developing world countries with poor resource many of these patients are los angeles wishing on wards. our course bring in surgeon and is teach them so they can spare these limb and is bring the patients back to a functional status where they can go back and provide for their families. >> the foundation also supported bay pack which, is an exiting and innovative program. this particular program works with the sector to pregnant woman and the treatment of woman so that for babies who are born free of virus. >> when i first walked into the office doctor coen told me i can have a natural birth and i didn't wrap my head around that. >> we know a woman with hiv if we do nothing her risk of passing the hiv to her baby is 25% with the use of this medication we can substantially reduce that risk to much less than one%. bay pack someone of the first organization to use the combination medication in pregnant woman. >> i'm so grateful that the medicines they
must slow schedule a tal problems and injuries are the second largest burden in the world of healthcare. the least patients are seen in these developing world countries with poor resource many of these patients are los angeles wishing on wards. our course bring in surgeon and is teach them so they can spare these limb and is bring the patients back to a functional status where they can go back and provide for their families. >> the foundation also supported bay pack which, is an exiting...
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the first question that i have for you is obama care will save on healthcare costs fact or fiction? >> that is fiction. the reason that's fiction is because we already know that we are projected out, total healthcare costs according to the center for medicare and medicaid services it will be over $4 trillion in 10 years. it is over 3 trillion now. it used to be 256 billion in 1980. it is continuing to rise despite obama care. it is not controlling costs. how can it when you consider our insurance policies are front loaded to cover all preventative services you don't have deductibles you don't have co-pays there's no brakes on the system everybody is using more and more healthcare. it's expensive. >> the congressional budget office says it will be twice as much as the original price tag. >> it is an out of control situation. all of these regulations may bring down the costs a little but the overall problem has not been addressed. second question for you fact or fiction if you get to obama care is not a socialized medicine. there's been a lot of confusion with this one. >> i would sth
the first question that i have for you is obama care will save on healthcare costs fact or fiction? >> that is fiction. the reason that's fiction is because we already know that we are projected out, total healthcare costs according to the center for medicare and medicaid services it will be over $4 trillion in 10 years. it is over 3 trillion now. it used to be 256 billion in 1980. it is continuing to rise despite obama care. it is not controlling costs. how can it when you consider our...
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so if you delay their end try on to medicare they still have healthcare problems we're just transferring that from a government's budget to someone else's private budget. >> yes, but the conservative response to that is that by pushing more people on to a competitive healthcare market the market will bring down costs. that's the big hope there. >> jamal: because we have had a competitive health care market for the last 20 or 30 years. >> our healthcare market is not a well-functioning market. and could you construction? but, yeah, your point is correct, if all you did was shift costs from a public ledger to a private ledger, you would still have a big economic problem. >> jamal: other than republican's plan about medicare, have they come up with ways to reform the private health care market that would lower costs? >> there is an interesting paper that came out a week or two ago. one of the ott-- authors said republicans should work to make changes and essentially make them much more market oriented and harness the pow er of that to improve the market. it's the first big new idea i have s
so if you delay their end try on to medicare they still have healthcare problems we're just transferring that from a government's budget to someone else's private budget. >> yes, but the conservative response to that is that by pushing more people on to a competitive healthcare market the market will bring down costs. that's the big hope there. >> jamal: because we have had a competitive health care market for the last 20 or 30 years. >> our healthcare market is not a...
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the way you deal with that is get control over healthcare costs. have a single pair, a public option under the new affordable care act. but you don't do that by holding the country up, by slowing economic growth, which is exactly what the sequestration is doing. >> john: well, you said you wanted the president to reframe the whole debate around the country's future rather than the austerity that g.o.p. favors. now republicans are campaigning against him on the issue rather than trying to meet him halfway. you and i know that is a load of nonsense. what more can the president do? >> i think the president ought to take austerity economics on directly. look at what has happen happened in europe. you have high unemployment. what does england do, spain they began cutting when consumers were already pulling back. when you do that, you shrink the economy. when you shrink the economy you have fewer revenues, then the ratio of the debt to the economy gets worse and worse. that is the downward spiral that a lot of europe is in. it's not greece. greece is a s
the way you deal with that is get control over healthcare costs. have a single pair, a public option under the new affordable care act. but you don't do that by holding the country up, by slowing economic growth, which is exactly what the sequestration is doing. >> john: well, you said you wanted the president to reframe the whole debate around the country's future rather than the austerity that g.o.p. favors. now republicans are campaigning against him on the issue rather than trying to...
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on this year's list, of the 4 top places, 3 are in healthcare. hospitals are aware they're full of stress, but they compensate with perks like fexible hours, exercise and meditation programs. you can smoke, but you can't hide. a growing number of companies are screening for smokers. more companies are requiring employees to take a nicotine screening test in order to prove a nonsmoker status. health coverage is substanially more expensive for people who do light up. changes in the affordable care act could penalize smokers with surcharges worth up to 50% of healthcare costs. coming up, with "jack the giant slayer," that's 4 bombs for warner brothers. in our movies and money segment we discuss spring and summer redemption for the venerable studio. first, michael jordan or lance armstrong? which is the best role model to inspire business teams, next on first business. the business world looks to the athletic world for models of success and inspiration. usually it's a lesson in individual achievement, but there's a new book out that singles out forme
on this year's list, of the 4 top places, 3 are in healthcare. hospitals are aware they're full of stress, but they compensate with perks like fexible hours, exercise and meditation programs. you can smoke, but you can't hide. a growing number of companies are screening for smokers. more companies are requiring employees to take a nicotine screening test in order to prove a nonsmoker status. health coverage is substanially more expensive for people who do light up. changes in the affordable...
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ashley: let's move onto the federal federal healthcare law. you have also been challenging that on the legal front. federal lawyers say your actions would deny some 3,080,000 uninsured oklahomans with federal subsidies that would help them purchase private insurance. what is your particular beef with this particular healthcare law? >> it is simply that they are not following the law. if the irs wants tax credits to flow in states where they have the state healthcare exchange or not, thhre is a real simple answer for that. in incentive to the states to look at healthcare changes, to adopt them, there are certain benefits that came. there are certain benefits that occur when they do not choose it. oklahoma has choosing not to. the irs has disregarded our choice. we are challenging that authority. this is important to say, ashley, because, i think, often times when a dirty generals are involved in this, some interpret that as a policy statement. it is not a policy statement. those are policy decisions that need to be robust in discussion. what ma
ashley: let's move onto the federal federal healthcare law. you have also been challenging that on the legal front. federal lawyers say your actions would deny some 3,080,000 uninsured oklahomans with federal subsidies that would help them purchase private insurance. what is your particular beef with this particular healthcare law? >> it is simply that they are not following the law. if the irs wants tax credits to flow in states where they have the state healthcare exchange or not, thhre...